the american navy has named two. lee pollack: i have been on the uss winston churchill, which is a missile destroyer. there is not a winston churchill poundthing except the note. the royal navy is not what it used to be. it has no aircraft carriers but is >> building one. there are quite a few. there is that queen elizabeth and the prince of wales. lee pollack: this is something churchill tried to reconcile. there is a fine ship, and there is a full-time royal navy officer stationed on that ship rotates through, you'll -- only u.s. navy ship with a foreign officer on it. it is in norfolk and goes around the world. the men are very proud to carry churchill's name. motherton churchill's had a american, and he strong relationship and rapport with the americans in the second world war. sign or opinion or anything expressed by churchill with regard to america and the first world war? lee pollack: when he was minister of munitions, he was in liaison with americans so much, the munitions he could get were coming from the u.

the navy medical teams have never seen with japanese are calling the disease. the effect of the exposure there's really no understanding. everyone understood that chain reaction released vast amounts of key energy but this next level of effect was a revelation. can you imagine american troops the experience of atomic weapons on the battlefield all around japan, three bombs through the end of 45 with the capacity of los alamos and they would have used them. >> you said you're interested in the pacific war and they came from your childhood. can you tell us about any books or movies or things you did as a child that gave some truth to this? this?guest >> it was a whole lot of model building because they got older by the time i left for college wasn't a square inch of my ceiling that didn't have a pushpin with some type in aircraft. my bookshelves full of books but also models of ships. we got into the wargaming and the black sheep squadron was on nbc thursday night. it was terrible history. the storylines they made up were ludicrous, but it was a gateway drug to a

t gone pentagon >> he will meet with general mattis. 350 nitive number for navy ship navy. i asked my friend, captain jerry hendricks and a man called fficer x and robert o'brien, a law partner of mine to outline, how do you get from where we are depending how you counts the 350. and laid are specific out in the book. ship building is the backbone of free trade and security of the sea. we're mayor's time nation and have been from the founding. getting to the 350 is massive. repairing the nuclear deterrent is a major deal mentioned in the story this mes" morning, what he'll be talking with general mattis. fighter aircraft up to 1400. arine corps have to be expanded. a general, mel, tell me what the marine corps need. i put it out. ot just someone that read too many tom clancy novels. i checked with the air force to me the outline and i way," ge in "the fourth convene, vicemp to president and leaders of the senate armed services committee have everyone in a room and say, sequester is over, this is what we'll build, when we're going to build it. these are the states in which e

there was a great struggle in our navy i'm more familiar with. to help the battle line get into position. things are very useful and hoping you get in position. so ybut at some point they realized you can use these planes for raids on airfields. of course we all remember that. in fact our own navy was very much involved in developing those capabilities. there was a transition point and the navies said look, these all help our battleships, our battle fleet. if aircraft can carry a very heavy payload they could sink these ships. it's not a matter of positi positioning. it lead to the end of the battleship and rise of the aircraft carrier and sur marine. if you look at things today, i have had senior naval officers say to me, is the follow onto the virginia class a much improved version of what we have sore it something very different? is the next sub marine more like what we think of an aircraft carrier today, one that doesn't do the attacking itself, one that launches the way it launches unmanned under water vehicles? just when did the transition

ryan's daughter who is sitting beside him was a navy diver. his son-in-law is also a navy seal. following his retirement from the navy after 23 years of honorable service to our nation, ryan came back to montana and he continued to serve. because ryan ran for and you want a seat in her state as montana's soul representative for the united states house. in fact,, he wasn't the first navy seals ever elected to the u.s. congress. ryan has been a strong supporter of the conversation us as well as responsible natural resources development and increase recreation access on our public lands. you see, ryan grew up 30 minutes from glacier national park. i grew up 60 minutes from yellowstone national park. we both understand the importance of our national parks. in fact ryan and i've shared a mckinsey boat together, flyfishing and what a montana's many blue ribbon trout streams. ryan is intimately familiar with the vast jurisdiction of the department of the interior because he has lived it. he has seen his own hometown suffer due to bad government policies that hurt rural communities like

ryan's daughter is sitting beside him, was a navy diver, his son-in-law is also a navy seal. following his retirement from the navy after 23 years of honorable service to our nation, ryan came back to montana and continue to serve, because ran for and won a seat in our state senate and then as montana's sole representative for the state house. in fact, he was the first navy seal ever elected to the u.s. congress. ryan has been a strong supporter of conservationists as well as responsible natural resource development and increased recreation access on our public lands. ryan grew up 30 minutes from glacier national park. i grew up 60 minutes from yellowstone national park. we both understand the importance of our national parks . in fact, ryan and i have shared a mckinsey boat together, flyfishing on one of montana's many blue-ribbon trout streams. ryan is intimately familiar with the vast jurisdiction of the department of interior because he has lived it. he has seen his own hometown suffer due to bad government policies that hurt rural malta,ties like libby, coal strip, that

navy federal credit union. host: a big focus and transformation for nato involve technology and innovation. how do private companies effectively partner with a global alliance of nations, all of which have their own standards and requirements for purchasing? i asked the nato supreme allied commander for transformation how industry can support nato's expensive goals. >> yes. this is a question of what effect we need to achieve. to define capabilities. today we focus on the appropriate effect. is how we can fix the problems we face today. partner with the industry to do that, because if we describe the effect to the -- the industry can ,ell us, in 5, 10, 15 years this is technology you can foresee. inform them, they need to inform us. associate nations such as nato and the european union, why don't we partner together to develop these solutions. this is why it is so important that we engage the industry effects. we cannot engage the industry on the short-term rate on the short term there is a use competition. whe

sank ae attacked and navy gunboat. it says quite a bit about the dysfunctional as him in the government. the japanese suspected the americans were there to gather information. they insisted the attack was an accident and apologize, offering itpay indemnities, but poisoned japanese and american relations. it was evident to americans that the japanese were the aggressors. remains.ent, it the chinese were victims. we thought that somebody ought to do something about it. there was no enthusiasm for intervention. looked tonited states modify japanese behavior by applying economic sanctions. they applied economic sanctions because america was a leading producer and exporter of crude oil. large margin. the discovering and exploitation of oil fields had made the united states the world's oil king. it was not only the largest oil producer, and generated six times the amount of oil as the number two producer, venezuela. so, throughout the 1930's, we pumped oil out of the ground as fast as we could and sold it for pennies on the

you war navy seal for 23 years. you probably know better than most people here about protecting our country. i completely agree with your stance in this letter that climate change threatens our national security, that the defense department certainly knows that. it needs to be addressed as quickly as possible. do you still feel that climate change is a significant national security threat and one that requires immediate action or has your position changed since you have been in congress? >> that's a great question. thank you. >> and i want to be honest with you. the three tenants of climate change, one is that we both agree that man has had an influence. that is a major influence. >> do you have a paralegal with temperature rise? this is -- last year was the highest year on record. the year before was the hotest year on record. this will be hotter. this is happening. sea level is rising. >> and i'm not an expert in this field. what i do know -- >> but that to me is a cop out. >> no. >> i want to be honest with you.

navy seals also don't sale. and if that work ethic that ryan zinke brings the tab, every mission went there in military come united states congress for the department of interior. 23 years since her death, ryan connected special operations. he trained and mentored thousands of men and women and he made sure our troops were as prepared and saved and connecting the mouth failed missions around the globe. it was also the guy with a navy called upon to go into units and see how they could he improved. the advancement can afford new landscapes and detected by the enemy are reviewing existing processes and implementing their policies that are ground force commanders and headquarters they communicate more efficiently during combat. ryan zinke has always been a trusted leader and it would be no different at the department of the interior. as the deputy and acting commander in 2004, ryan went a combined force of special operators through the streets of falluja is the forward commander at the height of the terrorist activ

caller: there are quite a few are -- few royal navy ships. britain has changed since the first world war. and wrestling -- interestingly, there is a u.s. navy ship that has a foreign officer permanently stationed on it down in norfolk. and the menive ship are very proud to carry churchill's name. churchill's mother was an a strongand he had relationship with the americans in the second world war, was sign or opinion, or anything expressed by churchill with regard to america and the first world war? host: i think when he was minister of munitions there were obviously liaisons with the u.s.. it wasn't a close relationship. there was a famous -- he had a .inner in london franklin roosevelt came to visit and met churchill, had a conversation, 20 years later they meet in 1941 at the atlantic charter conference. apparently at the time, a few years before, when the subject , theodorell came up roosevelt had met churchill in the past. he didn't like him. franklin roosevelt said he never liked winston churchill. i met him at a dinner. the ironing -- t

. >> reporter: good evening we're here at the washington navy yard. the question is this: were less gones learned after the tragic shooting back in 2013. a report out now suggests that maybe not all those lessons were learned. we'll explain coming afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. sghv d.c. police need your help identifying a pen of interest in homicide. this happened back on october on mass avenue north east and police say the man you see in the video assaulted richard lewis causing life-threatening injuries. the 56-year-old died last friday and there's a 25,000 reward for any information that pleads to an arrest. >> in prince george count connection with a new year's eve murder in suitland. devon take procter shot and killed terri petty outside of a building silver park drive. the victim and us is second got into a heated arguement moments from the sho

ryan's daughter, sitting beside him, was a navy diver. his son-in-law is also a navy seal. following his retirement from the navy, after 23 years of honorable service, ryan came back to montana and continued to serve. senate,or the state and then as montana's sole representative to the united states it's out -- united states house. he was the first navy seal ever elected to the united states congress. you see, ryan grew up 30 minutes from glacier national park. i grew up 60 minutes from yellowstone national park. we both understand the importance of national parks. ryan and i have shared a mckinsey vote together -- boat together, flyfishing on one of my 10's -- one of montana's many streams. ryan has lived it. hometownen his own suffered due to bad government policies that hurt rural communities like libby, like malta, and others, that depend on public land access. ryan is a born and bred montanan. we have to strike that balance between conservation and responsible energy development. one-sizetands that a fits all policy, like from washington, d.c., never works from rural a

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and those robust navy protect navy and protect the air force are conducting defensive role in our region. can but one thing lacking is the strike capability under the japanese constitution. that's what we want. if this happens perhaps china will hesitate. and the last thing is please think about that. geography and geopolitics. whatever the chinese navy and the air force, they have in the future, they are still contained in the south china sea and east china sea. especially in the south china sea. that's something like the thermos. thermos we'll be able to keep the very hot tea or cold on the rocks with the bottle, right? and the south china sea is the internal container. and the line connecting taiwan, philippine and indonesia and the vietnam, that's the container. for us, especially what we need to do -- i'm not discussing the current status. but what we need to do to develop is a new concept. how to protect the outer skin of the thermos, taiwan and philippine. of course duterte is something different. we need to develop new idea or new strategy to keep the outer skin of the thermos ha

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navy destroyer to fire warning shots. plus hollywood's latest temper tantrum why the liberal left is throwing a hissy fit once again over the president-elect. . melissa: the latest provocation from iran, a u.s. navy destroyer firing a series of warning shots at four iranian ships. this is according to defense officials. the iranian vessels were seen speeding towards the destroyer and reportedly failed to respond to inquiries. here now is peter brooks, retired naval intelligence officer and heritage foundation senior fellow for national security affairs. sir, thank you for joining us. what's your take on this? >> well, it's just another act of intimidation on the part of the iranians. the reason i believe the ship was extremely concerned about this. they warned them, they asked them to slow down is that it's believe that iran use swarm tactics, in other words, send a lot of low value vessels toward a high value target toward a ship or aircraft character in an effort to overwhelm the defenses if they were to take some hosti

i also serve in the reserve of the united states navy. two years ago today i was deployed to afghanistan as a navy reserve officer. i was there for over six months in the point for over eight months. a total of a year away from my emily. that spring, the incumbent in my going to aced he was higher office and at that moment i decided to step up. i wanted to be one of the leaders to constructively move our country forward. >> where were you in afghanistan? cabobanks: i served in along with troops from other nato countries on the headquarters base at the time. now it is resolute support headquarters. i was there at a historic moment as the longest war in history and a. operation enduring freedom transitioned to operation freedom sentinel and i was there during the transition from one phase of the war to the current phase we are in today. when you areou see there and how do you apply it to what you are doing here? rep. banks: i hope to serve in a capacity where i can be a new leader on national security issues. was they werere taking steps ba

today, army, navy, marine corps, and we may need another branch. we may be thinking back and say, gosh, what were we thinking? >> you've each talked about -- sequestration levels of the defense budget, and about high bang for the buck development. coming at a time of incredible economic stress, huge debt. and i'm curious to hear, where will this money come from? where would you see the priorities for reducing budgets to take care of this today? >> i'll defer to the ways and means committees for that. hopefully we'll have economic growth, and you can always find some savings in the department of defense. i read there was $125 billion in savings, i don't quite buy that number. but bob gates found $400 million early in the obama administration. he wasn't allowed to reinvest that in the military, as he was promised, but that's an example. one of the things of a top priority, accelerated oil and gas production. the good lord put oil and gas in a lot of places where the federal government owns places. so, we can generate some revenue for that. and there

we had army, navy and marine corps. we didn't have an air force because we didn't really fly planes. today we haven't army, navy and marine corps and air force and i would argue we need more emphasis in this area and we will look back and 50 years and say what were we thinking. >> over here. >> you have each talked about areas of potential investment and the senator talked about-- >> watch the rest of this program at c-span.org. look at us institute of

following is an element from the united states navy honor guard from navy yard washington, d.c. the next element on-line is comprised of members from the united states air force honor guard from joint base anacostia bowling. the united states coast guard honor guard from coast guard station alexandria and from the rear of the formation of the 56 state and territorial flags of the united states. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the advancing of the colors and remain standing for the united states national anthem. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. >> the department of defense medal for distinguished service is presented to president barack obama. president brak distinguished himself as commander-in-chief of the finest fighting force the world has ever known. from january 20, 2009 to january 20, 2017. president obama kept our nation september, led a strategic transition in our defense strategy. strengthened our alliances and pursued new partnership answers laid the foundation for a force

navy tilt its presence in san diego. from historian carl xing hine. >> she was a large ship of new design and the navy put her through the paces, even though the war had just concluded. and she made numerous deployments to the mediterranean for the first 10 years of her career. then in 1954, it was decided she needed to transfer to the she madend so in 1955, an epic voyage because she was too large to pass through the panama tomorrow, from nor folk, virginia across the link of the atlantic, the indian ocean and entering the pacific from the west. c-span's tour of san diego, california. saturday at noon eastern on c-span two's book tv. and at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. next, justice department officials discuss with the obama administration has done in

after finishing his time in the navy he returned to whiteville to help run the drugstore. the day after returning home, he opened the family's store, walked across the street and introduced himself to his future wife, margaret fowell. they were married a year later and raised six children together. now, around this time mcneil got involved in scouting. first in a sea scouting troupe and later with the boy scouts of america as his children were growing up. mr. speaker, john mcneil's devotion to the boy scouts is well-known across north carolina as he took his troops to places as far away as the arctic circle and the yucatan peninsula. a famous story he told involved his troops hiking across the state of north carolina and stopping to have breakfast with the governor one morning along the way. mr. speaker, under john's leadership, some 55 boy scouts achieved the rank of eagle scout, scouting's highest rank. while john's legacy as a scoutmaster is near legend, thousands in columbus county will remember his hospitality too. . every fourth of july at his dock on the lake his fa